Let's start in Japan again, for old time's sake. Officials in Tokyo are working hard to keep fears over the city's irradiated water supply from turning into full-blown panic. And here's another grim/not-so-grim update about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Over here? Check out a slideshow of photos from inside the place.

"Days and weeks" is how long French officials are giving the war in Libya. Moammar Qaddafi's soldiers are holding fast despite regular blitzes by Western airpower. But American-European comity is already being tested. Germany, after abstaining from the Security Council vote approving the attacks, has refused to join an allied sea embargo.

In Syria, the latest Repressiest Place on Earth to see protests flare up, government forces may have killed as many as a couple dozen demonstrators. Public gatherings have been banned in Syria for the past 50 years.

WikiLeaks has a victim. The American ambassador to Mexico has resigned after Mexican officials, stung by the revelations in the leaked cables, decided they could no longer trust him and refused to meet him.

Um... an air traffic controller in Washington DC fucking FELL ASLEEP like a drunk at last call (that's a joke; maybe he has narcolepsy?). And two passenger jets managed to land themselves, safely, without any help from the tower.

Why do unions matter? Read all about New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on the eve of its 100th anniversary.

Thousands of out-of-work Oregonians who have tapped out nearly two years of unemployment are getting a reprieve after state lawmakers sent a pair of bills to the governor that would extend weekly benefits for several more weeks.

Google 2011=Microsoft 2001. One report says a couple of states are looking to probe antitrust charges against the giant search company as it works to make itself ever more ubiquitous.

Another float in the crazy parade. Yay. Michele Bachmann wants more people to say her name more often on TV, so she's maybe—but why, honestly, why?—going to explore exploring a committee to possibly run for president next year.

Divorce! It's what's for dinner! Census data shows rural families in red-leaning, values-voting, armpit places my elitist plane won't get any closer than 35,000 feet to, are divorcin' just as often as their sinful, city-livin' kin.